THEY HAVE no problem spending a lot of time in church to show their love of the Lord.
Their devotion starts at 11am and they don’t finish until 3pm – but they don’t mind going on even longer.
BUT THEN, IT’S NOT CALLED THE GABOLA CHURCH FOR NOTHING.
Gabola is the Tswana word for drinking, and in this holy church of the...

President Jacob Zuma was among the 'elites' that the SACP and Cosatu will be marching against, Solly Mapaila said during a briefing on Tuesday.
The South African Communist Party's (SACP) deputy general secretary said the president was the 'elite predator'.
Activities at schools, municipalities and mines are expected to be disrupted on Wednesday as trade federation Cosatu affiliates strike and march...

THE family of Mandisa Mkhize was devastated when it emerged on Friday that her decomposing body had been found in the bush.
The 15-year-old from Mehlomnyama, near Port Shepstone on the KZN south coast, had been missing for a week when it was discovered she had possibly been raped and murdered.
Her uncle, Alson Mkhize (50), told sources, “Mandisa was only...

Activities at schools, municipalities and mines are expected to be disrupted on Wednesday as Cosatu affiliates strike and march against state capture and corruption.
The disruption is aimed at making the ANC deal with workers' concerns about the looting of state coffers.
The labour federation will be holding another protest march next month over job losses that are a result of...

A 48-year-old cop shot and injured his wife and turned the gun on himself after, at Sundial Place in Tongaat, KwaZulu Natal
Reaction Unit South Africa was called to a residential area by a resident reporting multiple shots fired at the a house located next to a church.
The Warrant Officer based at the Tongaat SAPS allegedly approached his wife who...

A Limpopo man who claimed to be a sangoma with magic powers over crocodiles has reportedly died after a crocodile apparently attacked him.
According to reporters who rushed to the site after his wife called police and paramedics, Hakata had dived into a local lake in the province to show off his powers before a group of visitors to his...

Police in Soweto are on a manhunt for a pastor in the area who allegedly recorded his se_xual intercourse with a married woman and after leaked it on social media.
Husband of the woman, therefore, lodged a complaint with the police after the video went viral but all attempts to arrest the suspect only identified as Prophet Nyame proved futile...

A tokoloshi has caused sleepless nights for a whole village in the North West province. The short figure was eventually captured by a Zimbabwean sangoma who had been hired to cleanse the village. A video is circulating on the world wide web showing the tokoloshi after it was captured. One thing stands out from the footage : it’s gigantic...

VETERAN playwright and musician Mbongeni Ngema allegedly fired three shots.
But they all missed the target.
And his alleged trigger-happy moment got him in trouble with the law.
The Sarafina producer was arrested on Friday morning and charged with attempted murder.
Mbongeni was arrested after he had allegedly threatened a friend.
According to court papers, Mbongeni fired three bullets in the air on Thursday...

THE landmark 2014 judgment that sent a wealthy Mpumalanga timber tycoon, Lloyd Mabuza, to prison for eight life terms has been upheld by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria after the court dismissed his appeal to have the conviction overturned.
The landmark sentence was the harshest yet handed down for human trafficking in SA and marks the culmination of...